Recently I wrote a piece titled ‘The Misconception on Virginity’. As I was winding up the piece, my loving wife happened to come by my desk to see what I was writing. She read the first two sentences and decided to sit on the arm of my chair so that she could get the gist of the piece. All this while, my eyes were trained on her face. I was eager to know what she thought of the piece. She maintained a bland face and when she was through , she turned and faced me.

“Ritch, what would you have said if I had told you that I tore my hymen during sports in high school?” she asked me. “Would you not have raised a fuss?”

For once, I didn’t know what I would have done or even how I would have behaved. I smiled and brushed the question aside.

Let us look at another angle of this shooting match. To some people, virginity and presence of the hymen are one and the same thing. In the last piece, I tried to discredit that notion for there are other known reasons that could cause a virgin to have no hymen and thus not produce blood on the wedding day (or rather during the first sexual experience).

Most of the time we forget that there are other ways of sexual experience apart from vaginal penetration. For instance, there is oral sex on the one hand and anal sex on the other. The question that’s racking my mind: Should a woman who has engaged in either oral or anal sex but, however, ‘produces’ blood on her wedding night, be considered to have been a virgin on her wedding day?

I am made to understand that there are so many young women and ladies who have resorted to this form of ‘chastity’ to preserve their ‘virginity’ in Zanzibar (an Island off the East Coast of Africa). They engage in high scale ‘anal’ sex with their ‘boyfriends’ and some of them still crave ‘it’ when they eventually get married. Thus, most of these kind of women would receive a ‘barrage’ of adulation from their families and the parents of their husbands for having presented themselves unadulterated to their sons. If only the dark of the night could talk; it would tell of the ‘amazing’ actions of people who are held in high esteem. Such hypocrisy would be smashed to smithereens.

A character in Norman Mailer’s novel Harlot’s Ghost states that in Italy, an unmarried woman had to be “a maiden before and a martyr behind,” which implied that such women often resorted to anal sex, and anal sex was consistently painful (thus the usage of the word martyr).

Nowadays, people tend to get married a little bit older, with a more important and well-controlled budget. On the wedding night, the loss of virginity is no longer the turning point of their first night as a married couple. On this special night where everything, from A to Z, has been planned for months, if not years, women should aim for a unique and memorable set-up. Their mission is to re-enact their first ever love scene together. That is where sensual lingerie comes into play.

May it be to wear under the “very carefully chosen” wedding dress, or simply as the “well waited for” overnight surprise, very feminine, refined but also audacious pieces of lingerie remain the best choices. They must rime with seduction, intimacy, love and passion… and should revive the emotion of their first night.

Getting married becomes the best occasion for a woman to surpass herself and to purchase a “once in a lifetime” piece of lingerie to take her man’s breath away, once again. It is time for her to purchase THE item she has always been dreaming about. She has a wide variety of corsets, bustiers, garters, matching sets to choose from… coming in colors ranging from white, to ivory, pink, sand or powder, and a never ending list of materials. Being a special night where all fantasies come to life, feathers, pearls, rhinestones and fur can also be great additions.

More and more designers now also target this mostly seasonal audience, most sales occurring in January and onwards, while the lingerie is usually worn in the summer time.

Can anyone imagine what would be a wedding night without sensual lingerie? I personally can’t. It would simply be a waste! It is THE night all women have been waiting for. Might as well make the best out of it. 🙂